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Phones
Find My iPhone Leads Cops To Robbery Suspects
5:00PM Danny Allen | Find My iPhone to the rescue again! Pittsburgh Police nabbed three robbery suspects over the weekend, after the man they allegedly robbed used the MobileMe online service to point police to their location. More »
Phones
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Push. It’s not just a verb that sends people careening down a flight of stairs. It’s also not just for guys in suits diddling on BlackBerrys. You hear it featured on new iPhone apps every week. So, what is it? More »
Giz Explains: What’s This Push Business?
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Push. It’s not just a verb that sends people careening down a flight of stairs. It’s also not just for guys in suits diddling on BlackBerrys. You hear it featured on new iPhone apps every week. So, what is it? More »
Software
Playnice Will Make Your iPhone Auto-Update Google Latitude Via MobileMe
10:00AM Jesus Diaz | Apple thwarted Google’s effort to release Latitude—which allows your control-freak friends to know where you are at all times—as an iPhone application. You can only update it manually using a web page, which makes it not-so-useful. Until now. More »
Software
iDisk iPhone App Lightning Review: Halfway There
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Apple’s free iDisk app has potential to make that $US60 a year for MobileMe even more worthwhile, but for now it’s little more than a fancy file viewer with mediocre management capabilities. More »
Phones
Whoever Steals Your IPhone Can Just Turn Off Location Tracking
7:20AM Matt Buchanan | Find My iPhone was one of the best things Apple showed off on Monday at WWDC—track your phone, send harassing messages, etc. It works, but whoever pinched your iPhone can just turn off tracking right from the phone. More »
Software
Apple’s IDisk IPhone App Lets Users View, Send Documents And More
12:55AM Dan Nosowitz | Amidst the brouhaha yesterday, we sometimes miss a few little tidbits that could end up being super useful, like Apple’s free iDisk app for iPhone. It’ll let MobileMe users view and send stored data like documents and videos. More »
Software
‘Find My iPhone’ Lets You Ping, Remotely Erase Your Lost Phone
4:21AM Adam Frucci | Here’s a cool new feature for iPhone 3.0 for MobileMe customers: Find My iPhone. It’ll let you send a “I’m lost!” message to your phone or wipe it remotely if you need to. More »
Online
Salma Hayek’s MobileMe Account Hacked, No Nudie Pics Found (Sorry!)
2:15PM Dan Nosowitz | One of the irritating mosquito-like posters over at 4chan hacked into everyone’s favourite boob-related-adjective Salma Hayek’s MobileMe account and found it laughably easy despite MobileMe’s “security” questions. More »
Online
.Mac HomePages Will Become Permanent Time Capsules of July 7, 2009
12:15AM Matt Buchanan | Apple is discontinuing .Mac HomePages, but the way they’re doing it is neat for its potential historicity: You have until July 7 to edit the homepage, after which will it remain frozen forever, like a time capsule on the internet.
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